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The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons
A Seventeenth-Century Novel
The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood—is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in...
ISBN: 9780295748351
more detailsBosses of Light and Sound
Two movie-theater projectionists become addicted to "fixing" blockbuster films. An aged woman claims squatter's rights at a Congo-themed mini-golf park. An eleven-toed breakfast food designer tries to save a doomed relationship by attempting a foolish...
ISBN: 9780999005095
more detailsThe Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader
Selections from China’s Earliest Narrative History
Zuo Tradition, China’s first great work of history, was completed by about 300 BCE and recounts events during a period of disunity from 722 to 468 BCE. The text, which plays a foundational role in...
ISBN: 9780295747750
more detailsFurther Adventures on the Journey to the West
As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with...
ISBN: 9780295747729
more detailsEat a Bowl of Tea
At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness...
ISBN: 9780295747057
more detailsIdle Talk under the Bean Arbor
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection
Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua), by the author known only as Aina the Layman, uses the seemingly innocuous setting of neighbors swapping yarns...
ISBN: 9780295746111
more detailsPangs of Love and Other Writings
An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of...
ISBN: 9780295745398
more detailsScent of Apples
A Collection of Stories
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award
This collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the...
ISBN: 9780295995113
more detailsSkookum Summer
A Novel of the Pacific Northwest
As Skookum Summer begins, the year is 1981, and reporter Tom Dawson slinks back to his tiny Puget Sound hometown after making a disastrous mistake at the LA Times. Working reluctantly at the local weekly,...
ISBN: 9780295995618
more detailsNo-No Boy
"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No...
ISBN: 9780295994048
more detailsTemple Grove
A Novel
Deep in the heart of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula lies Temple Grove, one of the last stands of ancient Douglas fir not protected from logging. Bill Newton, a gyppo logger desperate for work and a...
ISBN: 9780295994246
more detailsYokohama, California
Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends...
ISBN: 9780295994741
more detailsNikolai's Fortune
As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune - leaving Torvik’s great-grandmother and his unborn daughter behind. As a reporter, Torvik determined...
ISBN: 9780295992334
more detailsPaper Bullets
A Fictional Autobiography
Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of high
comedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets, his first novel, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and...
ISBN: 9780295980799
more detailsthings we'll need for the coming difficulties
“Valerie Vogrin’s first full-length story collection is populated with characters who are lost, characters who are wounded, characters rendered with precision and the unflinching eye of an expert storyteller at the top of her craft. . . ....
ISBN: 9780999005071
more detailsThe Women on the Island
Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptation and frustration, “the women on the island” are prisoners of...
ISBN: 9780295981086
more detailsHomebase
A Novel
Homebase is the coming of age story of Rainsford Chan in 1950s and '60s California. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great-grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at...
ISBN: 9780295988160
more detailsPhoenix Eyes and Other Stories
Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern...
ISBN: 9780295979458
more detailsDark Blue Suit and Other Stories
The book opens with the annual spring dispatch, by the Seattle-based Filipino union, of thousands of Filipino workers to the Alaska salmon canneries. We meet characters who reappear throughout the stories: Vince, the tough but...
ISBN: 9780295976372
more detailsThe Bread of Salt and Other Stories
Long considered the dean of modern Philippine literature, N. V. M. Gonzalez has influenced an entire generation of young Philippine writers and has also acquired a devoted international readership. His books, however, are not widely...
ISBN: 9780295972756
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